Maryam Rajavi

Maryam Rajavi (4 December 1953-) was the co-leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran from 27 January 1985 with her husband, Massoud Rajavi.

Biography
Maryam Azodanlu was born in Tehran, Iran on 4 December 1953 to a middle-class family, and she earned a bachelor's degree in metallurgy from the Sharif University of Technology. After her sister Narges was killed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's SAVAK secret police in 1976, Rajavi joined the People's Mujahedin of Iran, organizing the anti-Shah student movement and rising in the ranks of the PMOI. In 1980, she stood as a parliamentary candidate, and she moved to Paris, France in 1982 after the Iranian government cracked down on the PMOI. Rajavi became co-leader of the PMOI with her husband Massoud Rajavi in 1985, and the PMOI supported Saddam Hussein and Ba'athist Iraq against the Kurds; in 2010, the Iraqi government issued an arrest warrant for Rajavi due to her involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the 1991 uprisings.